The "problem" with Monotheism

[Blake Reas]

This almost made me cry I laughed so hard! http://beliefnet.com/frameset.asp?pageLoc=/story/125/story_12546_1.html&storyID=12513&boardID=57086

[cloaked_dagger]

Just curious... but, why did it make you laugh?

[Blake Reas]

Today @ 03:20 AM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=82632#post82632)
cloaked_dagger:

Just curious... but, why did it make you laugh?

Because everyone always uses televangelist! They never ask Christians who are biblical. From the way the article sounded the lady was watching TBN they are all dispies who believe in the Armageddon garbage etc.

Blake

[djdavo]

UGGH! "One example is a belief in absolute truth. People who believe they have God in their pocket "
like the 1st statement has anything to do with the 2nd. (anyone who believes in truth believes in 'absolute truth'. truth is by definition absolute)

" blind obedience to a leader.......lead to Jim Jones and Jonestown"

and he was a fundamentalist christian???

:argh:

[garthoverman]

Today @ 09:35 PM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=85669#post85669)
djdavo:

truth is by definition absolute
Not its not. SOME truth is absolute (tautologies, for example), however "Brussel sprouts are delicious" may be true to one person and false to another.

Yours,
Garth

[dizzle]

Yesterday @ 05:43 PM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=85721#post85721)
garthoverman:


Not its not. SOME truth is absolute (tautologies, for example), however "Brussel sprouts are delicious" may be true to one person and false to another.

Yours,
Garth

No, I think you have made a false dichtomomy there. When someone says the true statement "Brussel sprouts are delcisious" there is a suppressed phrase in there that is understood to the listener, and that is that the statement is more fully expressed as this, "Brussel sprouts are delicious to me." That statement is absolutely true. It cannot be applied to another for then you would have to say that the person making the claim intended for it to be universal, and then it is no longer a true statement and irrelevant to the discussion of absolute truth.

[Dbtng.Thomas]

Blake Reas:

Because everyone always uses televangelist! They never ask Christians who are biblical. From the way the article sounded the lady was watching TBN they are all dispies who believe in the Armageddon garbage etc.

Blake


Why do you assume that televangelists are not "biblical" Christians. They certainly seem to rely heavily on the bible, quote it often and profess their belief in it?

[Pereynol of Sheer Dread]

I'm thinking of becoming a televangelist....

[Sheepdog]

good to see i have incentive to add "Guilt By Association" to my fallacies page.